****George Soros | The Social Media Threat to Society and Security




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'Companies earn their profits by exploiting their environment. Mining and oil companies exploit the physical environment; social media companies exploit the social environment.' (photo: Don Arnold/WireImages)
George Soros, Project Syndicate 
Soros writes: "It takes significant effort to assert and defend what John Stuart Mill called the freedom of mind. And there is a real chance that, once lost, those who grow up in the digital age - in which the power to command and shape people's attention is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few companies - will have difficulty regaining it." 
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